Bartlett Publishing has put together several lists of books available from many various publishers which are essential reading for anyone interested in the topic. Check them out today!
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New Medio just released <a href="http://www.newmedio.com/site/postings/17?section_id=2">a cool new tool to do geolocation/geotagging maps of Twitter posts</a>. Can be used HTML-only (no Javascript coding required!) or with a Rails plugin.